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Xilinx ISE 8.2i for Windows XP |
General Information
The overall installation approach is to install the application onto
your local drive using a copy of the CD's on the San drives, using the
Xweb interface.
This version runs on a Windows XP machine.
ISE 8.2i release notes are available on your V-drive at:
V:\Cae\Xact\8.2i\ISE_8.2i_Release_Notes.pdf
Installing to local PC drive
To install the application to your local disk requires about 2.1 GB of
diskspace, including documentation, SP3 and the optional ModelSim
application.
It is recommend that you install Service Pack 3 (SP3) and Update 2, which is
available through the Xweb, as listed "Steps" within the same xweb entry as
for the main application.
Install MXE
- Go to the same initial Xweb page as for the main installation. This
time select "Starter Mentor Modelsim XE III 6.1e", and agree
to the usual license requirements.
- As with the previous components, you are again presented with the choice of
which Step to pursue. Select again, although apparently redundant, Step 3.
- As with the previous components, you are given the choice of
'Running' the installation, which automatically downloads the installation
files, unzips and installs them. Or, you can 'Save' the installation files
to a local location of your choice and do the rest of the installation from
there.
- The security-warning window prompts you whether you want to 'Run' the
installation script, to which you respond by selecting 'Run'. After some
delay, the WinZip Self-Extractor window pops up, indicating that the
unzipping of the installation files is occurring. Finally, the actual
Mentor installer appears.
- You are prompted in the 'Select Components' window to specify what
type of installation you would like. Select the "MXE Starter" (Limited)
- In the "Software License Agreement" window, click on 'Yes' to accept
the license agreement.
- In the "Choose Destination Location" window, specify the local folder
in which you would like to install ModelSim Starter.
- In the "Select Library Installation Option" window, select the
installation type you would like.
- In the "Select Program Folder", select either the default presented,
within an existing Folder such as the one you just created for the main
application, or a Folder or your own choice.
- The installation then proceeds.
- Responses to a few questions are prompted for after the installation,
which you can answer as you wish, except in the "License Request" window,
click on 'Yes', since you will need a (free) license to run MXE Starter.
- After clicking on 'Finish', you are then presented with a webpage
for logging in to the Xilinx website, either with an existing account,
or one that you can create on the fly. Follow the remaining instructions
presented for having an MXE Starter license file emailed to you. It is
unfortunately not possible to share a single license. Rather, each
license is tied to your local PC, necessitating a separate MXE Starter
license for each machine.
- Continuing with the MXE Starter license setup, as indicated in the
license request instructions two steps ago, when you first intend to invoke
MXE, set up the license you were emailed as follows:
- Copy the license.dat file you were sent, to any directory of your
choice
- Call up ModelSim XE and click on the "Licensing Wizard" menu, then
click on 'Continue' in the menu that appears.
- You are prompted for the location of your emailed license file, which
you can Browse to.
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In the next "License Wizard" popup window you are prompted whether you
would like your LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable augmented with the
location of your MXE license.dat file. You also have the option, instead,
of adding the license path to the LM_LICENSE_FILE list yourself.
- Finally, you are prompted to rerun the License Wizard to run a test of
of the newly-installed license, which is straightforward. First you are
presented with the same initial screen as before, in which you simply
click on 'Continue'. The next screen prompts again for the location of
the license file, for which the default is displayed corresponding to the
location you specified during the first time through this process. Finally,
the next screen allows you to specify a license file test option, which
you click on to carry out the test. Sometimes this test will be invoked
automatically.
When you use ModelSim, there will an initial message to the effect that you
are using a Starter version only, etc. These messages can be ignored.
- This completes all installations.
- You will be returned to the Xweb installation page, which you can now
exit from.
- Set the required environment variables, as follows
- In the /Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/('Advanced', if WinXP)
environment/ menu, set the following three (system) environment variables,
in case they are not yet set appropriately:
XILINX= (your local top-level Xilinx installation directory)
PATH should include: $XILINX\bin\nt
LM_LICENSE_FILE only needs to include the local license for running ModelSim,
in case you installed that optional application as well.
Install SP3
ISE 8.2i SP3 Release Notes
- Naturally, you need to have an existing installation of ISE 8.2i on
your PC before you install SP3, and your XILINX environment variable must
be pointing to that local installation directory. This environment variable
will be set correctly after you install the main ISE 8.2i application.
- You can install, optionally, Service Pack 3, by going to the same
initial "Multiple Step Install" window for ISE8.2i. Near the bottom
of the next window, select "Install SP3".
- After agreeing to the license conditions, you are presented with
a similar menu to the initial one, in which you again click, near the top,
on 'Install SP3'.
- As before, you can choose between 'Run', or 'Save'. The Run option
handles the installation file download, unzipping and installation
automatically, whereas the 'Save' option downloads the files to a location
you choose. You then go to that location and double-click on the
downloaded .exe file to begin the actual installation. In some cases,
you may have to click on the 'Run' or 'Save' option a second time, if the
download pop-up window does not appear.
- After the download has completed, you are prompted whether you want
to 'Run' the file downloaded file, to which you respond by clicking on 'Run'.
- You are then presented with menu "Select Destination Directory",
which should display as the default the Folder of your current installation
Folder. If not, Browse to the correct Folder.
- After clicking on 'Install' on the following screen, the installation
commences, possibly with an initial backup of your existing files,
if you checked the corresponding box, and completes without further ado.
- This completes the installation of Service Pack 3.
Install Update 2
ISE 8.2i Update 2 Release Notes
- Again you need to have an existing installation of ISE 8.2i on
your PC before you install Update 2, and your XILINX environment variable must
be pointing to that local installation directory. This environment variable
will be set correctly after you install the main ISE 8.2i application.
Update 2 is meant to be installed after you have installed SP3, which
is also available on the Xweb, associated with this application.
- You can install, optionally, Update 2, by going to the same
initial "Multiple Step Install" window for ISE8.2i. This time, select
"Update 2".
- After agreeing to the license conditions, you are presented with
a similar menu to the initial one, in which you again click, near the top,
on 'Update 2'.
- As before, you can choose between 'Run', or 'Save'. The Run option
handles the installation file download, unzipping and installation
automatically, whereas the 'Save' option downloads the files to a location
you choose. You then go to that location and double-click on the
downloaded .exe file to begin the actual installation. In some cases,
you may have to click on the 'Run' or 'Save' option a second time, if the
download pop-up window does not appear.
- After the download has completed, you are prompted whether you want
to 'Run' the file downloaded file, to which you respond by clicking on 'Run'.
- After the initial license agreement signoff, you are presented with
menu "Select Destination Directory", which should display as the default,
the Folder of your current installation Folder. If not, Browse to the
corrct Folder.
- After clicking on 'Install' on the following screen, the installation
commences, possibly with an initial backup of your existing files,
if you checked the corresponding box, and completes without further ado.
- You can then exit the Xweb webpage.
- This completes the installation of Service Pack 3.
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Last updated: Nov 1, 2006